Was
He too Good to be True?
I’m
done, well-done, burnt by the genius
of
his protean talent, a giant who strode
the
distant horizons of his mind in search
of
that “open sesame” to his wholeness
and completeness;
dying, 87% satisfied
in
his prodigious enterprise to answer “the
crucial
question” of his life—phrased to
capture
every soul’s imperative: “Why
am I
me? What an adventure, this Jungian
exercise
of Talking with John Updike on the
blank
pages of my mind; archetypal reality,
pure
fantasy, who can say for sure? It’s
over;
my lifelong fear of reading him,
gone.
A deep dive into his life and work,
beginning
March 28, 2022, ending May 25,
2023;
and
I owe it all to my tenacious pride.
Gifted
beyond his own expectations, he gave
the
world such a dazzling glimpse of the
human
condition that he left me wondering,
was
he too good to be true?
Composed
in Georgian Bay,
Sunday,
July 16, 2023
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